Local chimney crown repair in Neptune Beach

Crown work in Neptune Beach is timed around dry weather and cure times, and the crown inspection that plans it is free.

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Coatings go on only in the weather window the maker allows, so the seal has time to set.

Free inspection and estimateWe map the cracks on your Neptune Beach crown and check the brick under it at no charge.
Upfront pricing, no hidden feesCoating and recasting are both priced on paper, so you see the difference before choosing.
100% satisfaction guaranteedIf the finished crown is not right, tell us and we come back to put it right.

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Two flues under one crown

Two flues in one chimney, for two fireplaces or a fireplace and another appliance, share a crown wrapped around both tiles. Both tiles get a flexible joint of their own, the crown has to slope away from both, and the space between the tiles is a place where water likes to sit.

Shaping the crown to drain between the flues as well as off the outer edges is the extra step on a two-flue chimney in Neptune Beach, and each tile is checked for height and cracks on its own. The cap over both flues is planned before the pour. Describe the top of your Neptune Beach chimney to our crown pros at (904) 920-5495, and the check costs nothing.

The 2020 Census counted 7,217 residents in Neptune Beach. Neptune Beach sits on the coastline.

Crown work from crack map to cure

Failed mortar washes broken out down to sound brick
Forms set with an overhang past every face of the brick
Chimney cap refastened once the new crown can hold it
Coat or recast decision for your Neptune Beach crown in writing

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From crack map to cured crown in Neptune Beach

Crack map from the roof
We identify the type of top and sketch each crack with its width, so the choice between coating and recasting is based on what is there.
Prep for coating or removal
A sound crown is cleaned and its wider cracks filled; a failed one is broken out down to sound brick.
Coat, or form and pour
The coating is brushed on in dry weather, or new concrete goes into forms with an overhang, a drip groove and reinforcement.
Cure, seal and refit the cap
The bond break at each flue is sealed, the concrete cures under cover, and the cap goes back on.

Crown coatings where salt air reaches Neptune Beach

Salt deposits left on a crown in Neptune Beach hold moisture on the surface between rains. On a sound slab, a flexible crown coating keeps that moisture out of the hairline cracks.

We brush the coating on only after the crown is washed clean and dry, inside the temperature range on the maker's data sheet.

10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection

Seal or recast, crown repair in Neptune Beach earns the 10% discount.

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Building the forms for a cast crown

A cast crown is shaped by its forms. Boards or form material are fixed around the top of the chimney, set out past each face by the planned overhang and level all the way round. A strip fixed to the underside of the form creates the drip groove.

Inside the forms, the top surface is shaped to slope from the flue tiles down to the edge on every side. The forms stay on until the concrete can hold its shape, and they come off without breaking the edge. The forms decide whether the finished crown sheds water or sits up there as a lump of concrete.

Reinforcement inside a cast crown

Concrete shrinks as it cures and moves with heat afterward, and without reinforcement those movements open cracks. BIA Technical Note 19B calls for adequate reinforcement in a cast cap to control cracking from shrinkage and thermal movement, with extra where the cap overhangs the face.

The reinforcement is placed within the thickness of the crown, clear of the brick below and the surface above, so concrete surrounds it on all sides. Where a crown will stay wet for long spells, the type of reinforcement is chosen with corrosion in mind. You are told what goes in before the pour.

Reinforcing steel in crowns near salt water

Close to the coast, chlorides from salt spray settle on a crown and work into the concrete. When they reach ordinary reinforcing steel, the steel rusts, and rust takes up more room than the steel it came from. The expansion splits the crown from inside, along the line of the bars.

For crowns in this band we keep reinforcement well inside the concrete, choose a dense mix, and consider reinforcement that does not rust where the design allows it. The concrete code, ACI 318, treats chloride exposure as its own durability category, and we build the crown with that exposure in mind.

Coat or recast, and the reasons

Repair method chosen, coating, patch or recast, with the reason
Removal of the failed top down to sound brick
Top courses of brick relaid before the new crown goes on
Rain protection for fresh concrete while it sets

Crown repair questions from Neptune Beach

Is Neptune Beach inside your crown repair area?

It is. On your Neptune Beach chimney we first identify the type of top and map its cracks, then put a coating or a recast in writing. Call (904) 920-5495 to book.

Can a drip edge be added to my existing crown?

Not in a way that lasts. A drip edge has to be formed into the underside of an overhang, and a crown without an overhang has nowhere to put one. The fix is a new crown formed wider than the chimney.